Roy Williams on N.C. State being ACC favorite: That very easily could happen Posted Jun 14, 2012 You have to go back a ways – a long ways – to find when N.C. State last entered a basketball season as the favorite to the win the ACC. But that could change next season. “I would think that could very easily happen, and maybe should happen,” North Carolina coach Roy Williams said on Thursday. (Raleigh News & Observer)